Two weeks from now, on Monday, June 27, 2011, we’ll celebrate 5 years of posting TEDTalks online. Throughout the week, we’ll be celebrating. We’re rolling out some new features, sharing messages from the TED family, and taking a look back at 5 years on the web.

And you’re invited to join in! Have TEDTalks made your life more interesting? We’d love to see your fun & creative ways of celebrating TEDtalks as individuals as well as communities around the world. Organize a video night … paint a picture … make a playlist … write a song … send us an email … write a blog post … we’re looking for all kinds of creative submissions to share on the blog the week of June 27.

Share your stories in the comments below, by email or on Twitter, and we’ll share the best efforts right here.

We’ll also be asking audience questions for the next two weeks, starting with:

Inspired by a comment from Benedikt Heinen, the TED Blog would like to know: How many people out there have set a goal to watch all the TEDTalks? In two weeks, we’re going to be celebrating 5 years of posting TEDTalks online. And if you’ve watched every TEDTalk — we want to celebrate that too. […]

According to our best estimates, TED has surpassed a billion video views! Our most recent metrics show that TED Talks are being viewed at a rate of 1.5 million times a day — which means that a new viewing commences 17 times a second. We in the TED office cannot thank you enough for helping us […]